Harrison Schmitt

Harrison Schmitt (3 July 1935-) was a US Senator from New Mexico (R) from 3 January 1977 to 3 January 1983, succeeding Joseph Montoya and preceding Jeff Bingaman.

Biography
Harrison Schmitt was born in Santa Rita, New Mexico in 1935, and he became a NASA astronaut in 1965. He became the twelfth and second youngest person to land on the Moon in December 1972, and he was reputed to have taken the famous "Blue Marble" picture of Earth from space. In 1975, he resigned from NASA to seek election to the US Senate as a Republican, but he lost for re-election in 1982. He later served on the NASA Advisory Council, and he asserted a link between Soviet communism and the American environmentalist movement, claimed that climate change was a Nazi-propagated concept, and that nature caused the changes in weather.